Louis riemenschneider



(No Model.)

RIEMENSGHNEIDER. FRAME FOR EYEGLASSES.

Np. 416,857. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.,

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To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES- PATENT LOUIS RIEMENsonNEIDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FRAME FORFEYEGLASISESP SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,857, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed August 9, 1889. Serial No. 320,219. (No model.)

Be it known that I, Louis RIEMENSCHNEI- DER, of New York, county and State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have in Vented certain new and useful Improvements closes said frame also serving to hold the bowinner side.

spring and the nose-rests.

The invention consists in a lensframe formed of a wire provided on one end with a hub and at the other end with recessed post for receiving said hub, which post is provided on the outer end with wings, between which the bow-spring and nose-rest can be placed.

A screw is then passed through the apertures of the nose-rest, spring, and post, and screwed into the threaded aperture of the hub, thereby holding all the parts together,

The invention also consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and finallypointed out in the claims.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure l is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of my improved eyeglass -frame, one of the lens frames being closed and the other open, and partsbeing broken out. Fig. 2 is a face view of, an eyeglass provided with my improved frame. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail View of the joint of the lens-frame, taken from the Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged detail views of the parts on the ends of the lensframe. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional View on line 00 as, Fig. 1. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The eyeglass-frame is composed of two lens-frames A A, of the conventional shape, united by a bow-spring B and provided with nose-rests G. The lens-frames A are formed of wire, which is inserted in' the rim or edge of the lens, or said wire is grooved on the inside to receive the beveled edge of the lens, both of these constructions being old and well known. I provide that end of the lensframe wire that extends over the top of the lens with a short cylindrical hub at, having the two lateral shoulders I) andthecentrally- 1 threaded aperture (Z. That end of the lensframe wire that extends along the bottom edge of the lens I provide with a cylindrical post D, having a central aperture E, which is not screw-threaded, and at its outer ends the post is provided with two wings F F, between which one end of the spring B and the upper end of anose-rest'O can be placed, the end of the nose-rest resting on the end of the spring, and both the spring and nose-rest having apertures that registerwith the aperture in the post D. At the inner end of saidpost half of the post is cut away to form a semicircular recess H in the remaining half of the post, which recess servesfor receiving the smaller half of the hub a, so that when said hub dis placed into said recess H the outer surface of that part of the hub a having the greater diameter will be flush with and form a true circle with the remaining part of the post D, as shown in Fig. 3. A screw J is then passed through the apertures in the ends of the corresponding nose-rest O and spring B and through the aperture Eof that post D on which said nose-rest and spring rest, and is screwedinto the threaded aperture 01 of the hub a, which hub ahas been placed into the recess H, the lens K having been previously placed into the wire lens-frame. thus not only serves for closing the lens, but

' also'serves for holding the upper ends of the nose-rests and the endsof the spring'securely on .the lens-frame. Opening. and closing the lens-frame for the purpose of removing or securing. a lens and supplying a nose-rest and spriu g is thus greatly facilitated, and all parts I are held firmly and securely.

It is evident that a how such as 1s used in spectacles can be secured on the frame in the one end with a post having a longitudinal aperture extending entirely through it, and also having a recess at itsinner end, the other end of the said wire being provided with a hub having a longitudinally-screw-threaded The screw aperture, said hub fitting in the recess in the inner end of the post, substantially as set forth.

2. In an eyeglass-frame, the combination, with a wire lens-frame provided at one end with a post having a recess at its inner end and provided on its other end with a hub fitting into said recess, the post and hub having longitudinal apertures, that of the hub being threaded, Wings on the outer ends of the post, a nose-rest and a bow-spring placed between said wings, and a screw passed through apertures in the spring, nose-rest, and post, and screwed into the aperture of the hub, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention Ihave signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS RIEMENSOHNEIDER. Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, W. REIMHERR. 

